Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the Ceredigion local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 November 1987. House.

Castle House

WRENN ID
tangled-storey-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ceredigion
Constituency
Ceredigion Preseli MP: Ben Lake (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Castle House, 7 King Street, Aberystwyth, SY23 4HS
OS grid reference
SN 581 817
Coordinates
52.41495, -4.08765
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Castle House is a building with a Grade II listing. Number 5 features a three-storey front with two windows, finished in scribed render, and includes quoins, cill bands, and a rusticated ground floor with a plinth. Numbers 6 and 7 have two-storey and attic fronts, each with two windows; Number 6 is covered in scribed cement render, while Number 7 has roughcast with quoins and a cill band. Both have rusticated ground floors and plinths. The roofs are slate, with wide boarded eaves on Number 5 and bracket eaves on Numbers 6 and 7, which also have rubble chimney stacks. There are slate-hung dormers, with Number 6 featuring a swept roof and Number 7 a pitched roof, both adorned with cusped bargeboards, pendants, and finials. The sash windows on Numbers 5 and 7 do not have glazing bars, while Number 6 has small panes. Number 5 has a three-storey bay window with panelled aprons, and Number 7 has a similar two-storey bay window. The doorcases have wide bracket cornices, with panelled reveals on Numbers 5 and 6, and reeded half-columns on Number 7; the doors are panelled and half-glazed. The right-hand gable end facing Castle Street features cusped bargeboards and two sash windows. There is a cross range at the rear of Number 6.

Local climate

Castle House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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